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April 5, 2023April 7, 2023

Super Mario Brothers: Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach – ★★★½

Watched this with my youngest kid in 4k thanks to the fantastic restoration available on the Internet Archive. Looked surprisingly great and considering it is from only one year after the original Super Mario Bros. for NES there were a number of characters rendered surprisingly close to what they’d eventually look like in games 20+ years later. Definitely bonkers in some places and all the toad characters are certifiably horrifying.

Now I’m looking forward to the new Super Mario Bros movie’s post credit scene revealing the hot anime Prince Haru spinoff.

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March 31, 2023April 7, 2023

John Wick: Chapter 2 – ★★★

So is the premise every single person in this world is a hitman? Even in public people are either trying to kill Johnathan Wick or they’re completely unfazed by the constant stabbing and headshots feet away from them. Why are the henchmen (and the lone henchwoman who literally can’t speak) all so willing to get shot in the face for the bad guy?

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February 11, 2023February 17, 2023

Beetlejuice – ★★★½

Kids and I love the Beetlejuice The Musical cast recording so much that I finally caught up with this I maybe for the first time so I could see if kids would be ok watching.

I think I might have tried to watch this when I was younger but thought it was too creepy. I certainly recognize bits and pieces. I was surprised how little Beetlejuice is actually in Beetlejuice.

Definitely still to creepy/gross/scary to show my kids.

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January 22, 2023February 17, 2023

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within – ★★½

Hearing Alec Baldwin’s voice from Ben Affleck’s face and Steve Buscemi’s voice coming out of a Jason Priestly lookalike is very confusing.

Movie is actually moderately better and better looking than I expected though. How do they shoot ghosts with bullets though?

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July 30, 2022February 17, 2023

Facing Nolan – ★★½

It was fine. Produced by Nolan’s sons and himself so not exactly deep or revelatory, but was interesting to hear from Nolan and his family and hear old stories from teammates.

It was most maybe most successful at humanizing him as a grandpa. Biggest disappointment was relative lack of old game or behind the scenes footage.

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